Sel de Vetiver
Just ordered some samples of this. I’ve been meaning to get my nose on it for some time…
It’s the second scent released from The Different Company under the direction of Celine Ellena (her pops is the illustrious Jean Claude). It uses Haitian vetiver (the rarest kind), and was inspired by the “…skin’s softness after one has bathed in the sea, when the salt particles remain…” Liveche (aka Lovage) is used for the salty sensation, and is combined with citrus and wood notes.
NY Times Critic Chandler Burr called Sel de Vetiver, “riveting… as unearthly as a god born in the cold under an eerily bright star.” I sure hope he’s right. Peredepierre notes it was “curiously released the same year as daddy’s best-selling Terre d’Hermes, also based on vetiver, (but) Sel de Vetiver went in a different direction, and without a doubt did her dad proud.”
